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Administrators from Penn State University and Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) signed an articulation agreement to facilitate the transfer of LCCC students into 12 baccalaureate degree programs at 14 Penn State campuses, including Penn State Lehigh Valley, Penn State Hazleton, Penn State Schuylkill, Penn State Wilkes-Barre and Penn State Worthington Scranton.

Penn State Mont Alto held its sixth annual trauma-scenario training exercise for forest technology and nursing students on May 1. During the event, students worked with multiple agencies to rescue injured individuals who were in tree harvesting accidents in the forest near the campus.

Amy Kraus, an Animal Science major from Aliquippa, will receive the Outstanding Senior Award from Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences at the college's commencement ceremony at 3:30 p.m., May 10, at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. The award honors the senior who best balances outstanding academics, extracurricular activities, work experience and communication skills.

Students of Penn State’s Dickinson Law in Carlisle, PA are offering free tax preparation services to people with low and fixed incomes, people who have disabilities or special needs, and senior citizens aged 60 or older.

As is typically done at the March meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees, a presentation on room and board rates for the upcoming academic year was presented today (March 19), with a modest 3.89 increase recommended for 2015-16 by the Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning. The full board will vote on the proposal on Friday (March 20).

Penn State University Libraries faculty voted recently to embrace open access principles when publishing their scholarly articles. The Open Access Policy, passed into legislation at the Feb. 11 Library Faculty Organization meeting, preserves the right of library faculty to publish where they wish, but encourages authors to take advantage of open access opportunities whenever feasible.

Most parents are not surprised by the irregularity of a newborn infant's sleep patterns, but by six months or so many parents wonder if something is wrong with their baby or their sleeping arrangements if the baby is not sleeping through the night. Healthcare providers, specifically nurse practitioners, can help parents understand what "normal" sleep patterns are for their child, according to researchers.

Freshman engineering student Lara Vera and her teammates Danielle Grant, and Morgan Goodhart developed and presented a prototype of their Bingo board to Ruby Hassey, a 103-year-old resident of a senior living facility near the Penn State Mont Alto campus on Friday, November 21.

On Feb. 25, Penn State Mont Alto will offer the American Mathematics Competition on campus. The Mont Alto campus is the only public site for the AMC in the area and one of only five in Pennsylvania, including Penn State New Kensington. The AMC is a national mathematics contest aimed at talented secondary students with the goal of “strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation’s youth.”